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New Search Operators in your Documents List
Tuesday, June 29, 2010
Have you ever tried looking for a document or spreadsheet from a particular time or from a certain person about a specific topic? Let’s say you’re a rocket scientist and you’re looking for the presentation about “Prototype rockets with lasers” that your manager sent you last year.
Normally, you’d just search for [rockets lasers prototypes]. But, lets face it, you’re a rocket scientist so you get lots of matching results; just about every document you have is about rockets or lasers.
You could narrow the search in the advanced search menu or you can use
Search Operators
and refine the search directly in the search box:
Quotes for exact phrase matching. Example: [ "match this phrase exactly" ]
OR to allow either one of several words. Example: [ "rockets" OR "shuttles" ]
Items without a certain word: [ rocket -man ] will return docs that mention rocket, but not rocket man.
Items you shared with, or had shared with you: [ from:ted@rocketsnlasers.com ] or [ to:ted@rocketsnlasers.com ]
Starred or Hidden items: [ is:starred ] or [ is:hidden ]
And we recently added a some new search operators:
Type of doc: [ type:{document, spreadsheet, presentation} ]
Items edited before (or after) a certain day: [ before:YYYY-MM-DD, after:YYYY-MM-DD ]
Items owned by Ted: [ owner:ted@rocketsnlasers.com ]
Items with “rocket” in the title: [ title:rocket ]; [ subject:rocket ] does the same thing
Now you, the rocket scientist, should be able to easily find your boss’ presentation by searching for [ rocket laser prototypes from:overhead@rocketsnlasers.com before:2010-01-01 type:presentation ].
Posted by: Vivek Haldar, Software Engineer
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